What laptop do you use/recommend? (lemmy.org)

submitted 6 months ago by God@lemmy.org to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Looking to upgrade from an old Latitude, curious as to what mobile hardware you folks use for writing your open source projects?

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[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I use an old Latitude

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I just got a Lenovo Yoga 9i and am pretty happy with it. It has a really nice display and wanted to experiment with a convertible as I occasionally wished I had a tablet but wouldn't use it enough to justify it. Having a laptop that can double as a tablet was attractive.

Random notes:

Fingerprint reader doesn't work.
There is a sysfs file to set an 80% charging limit which is nice.
WiFi often seems slow and the signal strength is reported as low. I suspect this is poor AP selection as it seems to connect to a further AP in my house rather than the closer one.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I use a ThinkPad x280 that was my previous school computer so I bought it out after school for like 150€. I really like it, just wish it had a bit more RAM.

[-] rikudou 1 points 6 months ago

One of the MSI AI Studio laptops, everything seems to work out of the box with Fedora, including a fingerprint reader which has never happened to me before.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I currently use a 2021 Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition and I really enjoy it. It's a bit pricey at $1650 MSRP but it comes with a high end all AMD 5900HX, 6800M, 2 SoDIMM slots, and 2 M.2 slots. Plenty of ports: 3x USB-A, 1x USB-C, Ethernet, HDMI, headphone jack, and power jack; I've needed all of them and it's just enough. Quite good battery life for a gaming laptop and supports USB-C charging. I currently dual boot Windows and Ubuntu. Biggest flaws are the preinstalled SSD is crap and there's no webcam.

[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

I currently use a Thinkpad L540. Durable af, but really big and thiccc. The screen viewing angles are super bad though, along with the trackpad being kind of weird.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm not as hardcore as most, I run windows as my main OS, but I do love my LG Gram 17" laptop from ~3-4 years ago.

It's powerful enough for general use, webdev, and very light 3D modelling, and it is insanely light and portable. I have a 14" MacBook at work and the gram is lighter than it, thinner, not that much bigger, and far more durable.

Great keyboard and trackpad, giant screen (I wish it was brighter but this is the version from 3-4 years ago), and surprisingly solid Bluetooth, microphone, thunderbolt etc.